Between 1951 and 1954, anthropologist and writer Edgard Roquette-Pinto held aweekly column in the Jornal do Brasil, through which discussed topics related to science, literature, communication, education, anthropology and his own intellectual sociability. Although the column were dealing with controversial issues involving the cultural and policy life in Brazil early 1950, was the frequent recurrence to the past, ideas, events and personages that made up his intellectual trajectory and of generation formed in the late nineteenth to the twentieth century. So, the objective of this paper is to analyze the chronicles of Roquette-Pinto while texts of memories, trying to demonstrate that the author used his column as a writing itself, aspace to describe the experiences and sociability he had with his generation. On the other hand, this work highlights that his column also must be read as a public writing, through which the anthropologist expressed his political activism and their intellectual projects, especially those related to anthropology.
Edgard Roquette-Pinto; memory; anthropological authority